Charles Bowen Busey

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Charles Bowen Busey, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Bois-des-Loges, France, November 1, 1918. While on duty as instructor at the school and Langres, France, Lieutenant Busey was sent to the 78th Division for a week of observation work, where on his own request, he was attached to a front-line battalion; and again, on his own request, was assigned to duty with a company. During the attack on the enemy strong point in the Bois-des-Loges, Lieutenant Busey unhesitatingly and with utmost gallantry led a patrol of four men through a heavy artillery and machine-gun fire toward the position of a machine-gun nest which was holding up the company’s advance, when he was killed by a hostile hand grenade within a few yards of his objective.